The city of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, was sacked and partially destroyed by the armies of the Fourth Crusade in 1204. This attack on fellow Christians caused a centuries-long schism in the church and allowed the Turks to conquer parts of the Byzantine Empire.
The Byzantine emperor ordered all icons destroyed and the pope disagreed which led to Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor.
yes he was a paleologue byzantine prince.
greatest byzantine christian monumnet
The only that I know of was silk. Silk was a major industry in the Byzantine Empire.
The byzantine Empire was destroyed by the Otter men
: icons.
i am 100% SURE THAT IT IS THE TURKS!
Invasions by the Islamic Ottoman Empire destroyed the Byzantine Empire.
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Icons. In the Orthodox religion, images of Jesus and the saints are worshipped as if they were Jesus or the saints themselves. At one period in the Byzantine Empire, a group of Emperors opposed this form of worship and moved to have the icons (religious images) destroyed: they were called iconoclasts. However the iconophiles won out, and the icons are still there (well, not in Byzantium but in the Orthodox Churches of Greece and Russia)
the scrolls that were destroyed in the fall of rome
The greatest danger to the Byzantine Empire was Liliana Beyleri, the famous giant beautiful monster that destroyed most of the buildings there.
The Byzantine Empire was destroyed.
Leslie Brubaker has written: 'Byzantium in the iconoclast era (c. 680-850)' -- subject(s): Politics and government, Art and state, Byzantine Art, Byzantine Icons, Church and state, Iconoclasm, Byzantine antiquities, Sources, Church history, History 'Vision and meaning in ninth-century Byzantium' 'Images of the Byzantine world' -- subject(s): Byzantine Architecture, Idols and images, Meaning (Philosophy), Byzantine Art, Intellectual life, Visual communication, Nonverbal communication, Civilization, Church history, Visions, History
The Ottoman Turks, led by Sultan Mehmed II.
The Ottomans destroyed the last part of the Byzantine Empire. (Constantinople)